EE Gallery - Alternative Template

Djive says:

Great tutorial man, just on right time…

michael says:

thanks, very nice.

abismal says:

I love your ee tuts. thanks a lot!

mkey says:

I love the demo, and I am trying to use this template for my EE gallery, but it’s not working right… I get {/exp:query} instead of the album image.

I’m sure I followed all steps, and I repeated the tutorial several times, what can I be doing that’s wrong? Do I need something other than EE to use this template? Like plugins or something?

Editor says:

Do you want to email me a link to your gallery and I will have a look. All you need is Expression Engine to use this tutorial. Although EE Core does not include the Query Module. Might this be your problem?

mkey says:

Short Comment: Problem solved. Long Comment: I just started my gallery all over again, it was annoying since I did so much with it, but.. for some reason, now everything works fine, just a few CSS things I need to fix. That’s good news, but now I’ll never know what caused the problem.. how odd.

But again, thanks for these templates. They’re really great. One question though, have you tried using them when your photo gallery has photos of different sizes? Does it work all right?

Cecil says:

I’m having the same trouble. I’ve tried rebuilding from scratch several times, but to no avail. I’‘ve got the full version of EE installled so the query module isn’t the issue.

Editor says:

Cecil, do you want to email me a link to your gallery and I will have a look?

Catherine Walker says:

Hi I’m just trying to set up the image gallery following your tutorial and it is mostly working. (I have Slideshow Pro and was going to install it next but I figured I would try the template first.)

I have left my current gallery intact until I can get this working so I am trying to install the new one here:

www.walkerstrails.com/index.php/eegallery

Now I have 2 problems I know it must be something I have not changed or set up right but the album images are not coming up.

The links work fine and sets up the images in that category just fine except the navigation thumbs only have a handful, so people can only see a few images in any of the categories.

um, help?

Catherine Walker says:

er, don’t worry about the first problem, I’m an idiot, on the other hand I’m an idiot who worked it out, just have to do something about the spacing.

Still have the second problem though

Editor says:

Catherine, if you add a limit=“500” into the {exp:gallery:entries} tag that should probably solve your problem. As a second option you could add pagination links after the thumbs, but if I remember rightly I came across a problem using pagination. Not sure what it was now sorry

Catherine Walker says:

Thanks so much you are right that did work (the limit=“500” one), now all I have to do is figure out how to get it to fit into my current page design, yes I know it is in the CSS but I do not want to loose the formatting for the images etc. Then if I can get that working I’ll tackle the Slideshow part.

Thanks once more your tutorials are very helpful to those of us who really are not all that technically minded…. even if it did take me a few days to work it out!

Editor says:

Catherine, glad it worked for you. Good luck with the layout. If you want any help with the CSS try posting in the 5piece’s Forums.

Frank says:

I think that I have come across the problem you mention earlier with Pagination, when I select page two thumbs and click, the medium image, the image is selected ok but the thumbs revert to page one, this happens for any page. Any idea to get round this otherwise you are stuck with one page of thumbs. Thanks

Matthew Crist says:

First, thank-you for this tutorial. It was a great help.

Second, can you tell me if it is possible to do next and previous links with this template? I have tried a couple different ways, and I can’t seem to get anything to work.

Matthew Crist says:

My question was answered on the pMachine forums, over here.

pdg72 says:

Love this layout. One question: on the index, how would I separate categories? I’d like to show categories 1-5 in one spot and categories 6-10 in another. If you could help me with how that code would look I would be very grateful.

Richard says:

Thanks so much for this plugin; it’s been working well so far.

One thing I’ve always wondered about was this:

{exp:gallery:category_name}{category}{exp:gallery:category_name}

…why does this work? I mean, I thought it was a bug or typo at first, but of course the category names don’t get output unless it’s marked up this way.

Bill says:

Hello,

Thanks for showing us how to add category images with the gallery. I would like to know how to have only thumbnails on the category page (see example below.). In other words, there would be a gallery page, a category page and the full-image page. Both the gallery page and the category page would have only thumbnails.

thank you

http://www.livingcolorgardencenter.net/html/webPhotoGalleries/plantsCSS/index.htm

Editor says:

Bill, take a look at this reply http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/72104/

Bill Lindley says:

Thanks John

This worked perfectly.

CTAC says:

John Henry! Thank You very much for your example.

CTAC says:

I see a mistake with Prev|Next entry

We need to use next code {exp:gallery:prev_entry gallery="{gallery_name}"} <a href="http://{path=">Previous entry</a> {/exp:gallery:prev_entry}&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp; {exp:gallery:next_entry gallery="{gallery_name}"} <a href="http://{path=">Next entry</a> {/exp:gallery:next_entry}

giovanni says:

Hi – i had the gallery on our test site working, or so i thought, but today i noticed that the PREV and NEXT buttons no longer work as clicking on them causes one to go to a different gallery?? any one have a solution for this??

Editor says:

Next and Previous links are now corrected in templates. Thanks for the heads up!

Kevin says:

Hi John, thanks a million for posting this template – it works really well. I have whats probably a stupid question but I’ll ask anyway – is it possible to limit the results displayed by the sql query within the exp:gallery:categories tag? I’ve tried appending the typical LIMIT to the end of the query, but to no effect…

Kevin says:

In case anyone is trying to do something similar, I found a solution on this thread – http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/77293/ – using just the query and not the category tag. You also need to use an empty {paginate} call to trigger the limit.

cheers
Kevin

Andrew A says:

Brilliant code for the photo gallery module.

However, one slight problem:

http://burtonphoto.sigma.titaninternet.co.uk/index.php/portfolio/index/

I can’t seem to stop the medium size images locking to the same height irrespective of whether they are portrait of landscape. I have looked on the EE forum and they mention about changing one of the core files so it locks the width rather than height but this doesn’t seem to have any effect.

Can anyone help?

Andrew Areoff says:

I have set up your Expression Engine Gallery template at:

http://burtonphoto.sigma.titaninternet.co.uk/site/portfolio/category/88/13

Can you tell me what code determines how many thumbnails show per page since I cannot seem to get more than 9 to show on this page? I’ve looked through the code that runs the gallery but can’t see what might be preventing more than 9 thumbnails showing per page.

Any ideas?

Editor says:

Andrew, add a limit parameter to the gallery entries tag and that should sort it.

Steven Hambleton says:

If you can provide a way to relate a gallery to an entry that would be grand!

Editor says:

There are 2 methods you could use the Gallery Category Extension by Robin or Masuga’s Simple Relation Extension, but it looks like you have explored these options already

Andrew Areoff says:

Thanks for that info. I found a note about the limit parameter and this works fine.

However, I’ve noticed that underneath the large image the previous and next links don’t seem to display the next image in the portfolio but seems to display images out of sequence.

Any idea why this might be?

birdie says:

Howiya Vinny,

Thanks for this, i’ve used it to create a lightbox gallery with the album image stationary on the page along with a description and thumbs – it’s worked out really well. Can’t show you in public because it’s a member site but drop me a mail if you’re curious.

I have hit one problem though – I have 5 separate galleries on the site and need to create an ‘index’ page to list the latest gallery from each one, then the user clicks through to the full gallery. I can’t seem to get a limit working on the query to just show the last gallery & it’s Album Image though, any ideas?

Don’t want to break your comments by pasting code in, but I thought this would work: exp:query limit=“1” sql=“SELECT…

Cheers, Cormac

steve says:

Great tutorial, I love the way this works. I’m new to EE and this is very close to what I need for my first project. I’ve worked through the tutorial and everything except the album images works.

This is the link to my gallery http://www.vwcamperexpert.co.uk/index.php/vehicle_gallery/index/

You will see the album images don’t display. I realise the problem is likely a simple path issue but can’t put my finger on it.

I’ve set the variables at the top of your index template to the following:

{assign_variable:gallery_name=“vehicles_for_sale”}
{assign_variable:gallery_template=“vehicle_gallery”}
{assign_variable:gallery_folder=“gallery”}
{assign_variable:gallery_id=“1”}
{assign_variable:site_url=“http://www.vwcamperexpert.co.uk”}

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve

Dovla says:

Hello there, I really love this gallery template but there was one issue I had problems with…it doesn’t validate. And it wasn’t a really big issue but I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who want to have a valid gallery. There was actually only one problem with the code and I managed to fix it by googling around. The issue is the drop down menu forum for categories, it's code is: <form name="catmenus" action=""> <select name="selcat"> <option value="">Choose another album</option> and since XHTML strict does not allow the name attribute you have to use ids…the valid code for this is as follows: <form id="catmenus" action=""> <select id="selcat"> <option value="">Choose another album</option> I suggest that you update your original template…

cheers and thanks for the gallery!

Dovla says:

argh, seems the comment form didn’t parse some of the stuff I wrote in…so anyway here it is again:

instead of
form name=“catmenus”
select name=“selcat”

use
form id=“catmenus”
select id=“selcat”

and instead of
onchange=“location=document.catmenus.selcat.options[document.catmenus.selcat.selectedIndex].value;”

use
onchange=“location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value”

and now you have a valid xhtml strict gallery

Brian says:

http://www.loretoabbeydalkey.com/index.php/photogallery

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here wound be greatly appreciated. It seems to be repeating the category based on the number of images that have been added. It should show only one category.

Hitch says:

Hi:

I’m having similar problems to Steve, above; not only do the album images not display, but a) one album shows up twice, which is bizarre, and b) the links to the albums themselves don’t work. I think, like Steve, that’s it’s a path problem I’m struggling with, as I seem to get backwards with EE url’s. My url is: http://www.northofcarefree.com/index.php?/gallery/

I know my galleryname and gallerytemplate variables are correct, but I’m assuming that somehow, my path is wonky. The actual path is /northofcarefree.com/images/gallery/ with two sub-folders, one is blog_images and the other is reader submitted. Any thoughts that could help me? I’ve tried /gallery as the path name, /images/gallery and /images. I’m open to suggestions, thanks.

Hitch says:

FWIW, I’ve learned that if your images folder and your images gallery are NOT the same word, then you need to edit this line in the categories template in order to be able to view the images:

@<div class=“catThumbs”> {site_url}/images/{gallery_name}/{cat_folder}/{filename}_medium.jpg

and change {gallery_name} to {gallery_folder} to get your images to display@

Hope that helps some fellow traveler. I struggle with EE naming/url conventions, so after wrestling with it in the Gallery in the first place, I actually found this pretty quickly. Not so sure why the template is displaying my first gallery twice, though….still looking for guidance there…

Hitch

tiffany co says:

Not so sure why the template is displaying my first gallery twice, though¡­.still looking for guidance there¡­

Hitch